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Song

"Hard Times Come Again No More than"
1854 canvas music cover
Song
Published	1854
Songwriter(s)	Stephen Foster

"Difficult Times Come Again No More" (sometimes, "Difficult Times") is an American parlor song written past Stephen Foster. It was published in New York by Firth, Pond & Co. in 1854 as Foster's Melodies No. 28. Well-known and popular in its twenty-four hours,^[1] both in America and Europe,^{[2] [3]} the song asks the fortunate to consider the plight of the less fortunate and includes ane of Foster'southward favorite images: "a pale drooping maiden".

The first sound recording was a wax cylinder past the Edison Manufacturing Company (Edison Gold Moulded 9120) in 1905. Information technology has been recorded and performed numerous times since. The vocal is Roud Folk Song Index #2659.

A satirical version nearly soldiers' food was popular in the American Civil State of war, "Difficult Tack Come Again No More".

Lyrics [edit]

Allow usa pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears,
While we all sup sorrow with the poor;
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears;
Oh! Difficult times come up again no more.

Chorus:
'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,
Hard Times, hard times, come again no more than.
Many days you lot have lingered around my cabin door;
Oh! Difficult times come up again no more.

While we seek mirth and dazzler and music calorie-free and gay,
In that location are frail forms fainting at the door;
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say
Oh! Hard times come over again no more.
Chorus

There's a pale weeping maiden who toils her life abroad,
With a worn heart whose better days are o'er:
Though her voice would exist merry, 'tis sighing all the twenty-four hour period,
Oh! Hard times come once more no more.
Chorus

'Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled moving ridge,
'Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore
'Tis a dirge that is murmured effectually the lowly grave
Oh! Hard times come again no more.
Chorus

Recordings [edit]

"Difficult Times Come up Again No More" has been included in the following:

• Jennifer Warnes, from her 1979 album Shot Through The Heart.
• Dolly Parton opens her 1980 vocal "Hush-A-Adieu Hard Times" with an a cappella verse from the vocal.
• The North Carolina band Red Dirt Ramblers featured the song on their 1981 anthology Difficult Times.
• Recorded by Irish singer Mary Black on her 1984 album Collected.
• Akiko Yano sings this song on her 1989 album "Welcome Dorsum".
• On Syd Harbinger'due south 1989 debut album Surprise, Straw and X frontman and solo creative person John Doe recorded a version of the song.
• By Scottish grouping The Proclaimers on a 1989 BBC radio session.
• By Kate & Anna McGarrigle on the 1991 Songs of the Ceremonious War collection.
• By Emmylou Harris in her 1992 live album At the Ryman.
• By Bob Dylan for his 1992 album Good as I Been to You.
• As the penultimate track on the 1992 debut anthology from The Lost Dogs, Scenic Routes.
• Harvey Reid plays his audio-visual guitar on his 1994 album Chestnuts.
• In Series One (1995) of the "Transatlantic Sessions", the song was performed by an ensemble equanimous of Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright, Emmylou Harris, Mary Blackness, Karen Matheson and Rod Paterson.^{[4] [ ameliorate source needed ]}
• The 1995 movie Georgia, sung by Mare Winningham.^{[v] [vi] [7]}
• The 1995 motion picture The Neon Bible performed past Thomas Hampson.
• Nanci Griffith on her 1998 effort Other Voices Too (A Trip Dorsum to Bountiful).
• Ambassadors of Harmony perform an a cappella male chorus barbershop arrangement on their 2000 anthology Sing Sing Sing! ^[8]
• The 2000 Appalachian Journey, for vocalism & piano with Edgar Meyer (bass), James Taylor (vocals) Marker O'Connor (violin or fiddle) and Yo-Yo Ma (cello).
• Eastmountainsouth (aka Peter Bradley Adams & Kat Maslich) recorded this song on their eponymous album in 2003.
• Johnny Cash on the Redemption Songs disc of the 2003 Unearthed box set of out-takes and alternate versions from his American Recordings series.
• Mavis Staples recorded it for the Grammy award-winning album Cute Dreamer (2004).
• Randy VanWarmer recorded this song on his 2005 album Randy VanWarmer Sings Stephen Foster.
• In 2005, the vocal was included in the soundtrack Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown, performed past Eastmountainsouth.
• The 2005 film My Brother's War past Whitney Hamilton.
• Matthew Perryman Jones included it on his 2006 anthology Throwing Punches in the Dark.
• Andru Bemis recorded it on his 2006 anthology Rail to Reel.
• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band'southward 2009 Working on a Dream Tour and captured on their 2010-released London Calling: Live in Hyde Park concert video, in the midst of the Not bad Recession.
• Mary J. Blige and The Roots at the 2010 Hope for Haiti At present: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief telethon.
• In the Season 2 finale of Parenthood by the aforementioned name, the song was contributed to the soundtrack by Brett Dennen.
• The 2012 Voice of Ages past The Chieftains, with Paolo Nutini.
• The 2012 Eesti Kullafond drove of Estonian folk-pop group Folkmill.^[9]
• An Iron & Wine performance featured in commercials promoting the 2012 Copper television series on BBC America.
• Black 47, on the 2022 anthology Final Call.
• The 2022 ix/eleven Memorial celebration (bagpipes adaption).
• Kristin Chenoweth performed the vocal on her 2022 live album Coming Home.
• Katy Treharne sings it on the Tearfund with 'Due west End has Faith' 2022 album Speechless.^[10]
• Joel Plaskett's 2022 album The Park Avenue Sobriety Test.
• Annie Moses Band performed the song on their 2022 album American Rhapsody.
• Australian artists Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen included the song on their 2022 anthology Expiry's Dateless Night.
• Civilization VI uses the vocal as the leitmotif of the American culture.
• Madeleine Peyroux sang it on her anthology Secular Hymns (2016).
• Shuli Natan sang it in Hebrew.^[11]
• Mavis Staples' version opens the second episode of Ken Burns' 2022 PBS documentary miniseries, Country Music.
• The Longest Johns released a recording of the song in 2022 as the outset single of their forthcoming album Smoke and Oakum.
• Hailee Steinfeld performed on piano joined by Adrian Blake Enscoe in Dickinson season 3, episode 5.

References [edit]

1. ^ R. J. "The Fields of June". Southern Literary Messenger, vol. XXI, no. eight (August 1855) Richmond, Virginia, p. 503: "Among these may be mentioned that sad plaintive beautiful melody of Foster'due south—'Hard times come again no more.' Have you heard it? What an echo of sadness in it! 'Tis the song the sigh of the weary— / Hard time! hard times! / Many days you have lingered / Around my cabin door, / Merely difficult times come once again no more!"
2. ^ Sandford, Henry, Mrs. The Girls' Reading-Book. London: Westward. & R. Chambers (1876), p. 201: "Information technology was in a sewing-school in Lancashire, during the latter office of the Cotton Famine, that the well-known song 'Hard times, difficult time, come again no more than!' first became familiar to my ears."
3. ^ Hubbard, Westward. L. (ed.). History of American Music. New York: Irving Squire (1908), p. 80: "Other songs beside those designated as plantation melodies, but all more or less impregnated with sentiment, at present came rapidly from his pen and obtained a wide popularity not simply in America but in Europe as well. Such songs as ...'Difficult Times Come Again No More than', ... have become familiar to many nationalities."
4. ^ "Difficult Times Come up Again No More than". YouTube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-19.
5. ^ Karger, Dave (Jan 22, 2010). "'Hope For Republic of haiti Now': The telethon's x best performances". EW.com . Retrieved October 20, 2021.
6. ^ Johnson, Malcolm (Apr 12, 1996). "`GEORGIA,' WITH HEARTFELT SINGING AND Acting, LINGERS LONG ON THE MIND". courant.com . Retrieved Oct 20, 2021.
7. ^ Turan, Kenneth (December 8, 1995). "Flick REVIEW : 'Georgia' Has Heart and Soul". LATimes.com . Retrieved Oct 20, 2021.
8. ^ "Sing Sing Sing!". aoh.org. Archived from the original on xvi July 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
9. ^ "Folkmill – Eesti Kullafond". lasering.ee . Retrieved 15 May 2016.
10. ^ "Speechless". amazon.com . Retrieved fourteen May 2016.
11. ^ "זמן חשוך אל תשוב לכאן סטפן פוסטר נוסח עברי אהוד מנור שולי נתן והפונדקאים". Archived from the original on 2021-12-19 – via world wide web.youtube.com.

External links [edit]

• "Hard Times Come Again No More", Edison Male person Quartette (Edison Gilt Moulded 9120, 1905)—Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project.
• "Difficult Times Come Again No More" at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

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